Today, we'll start at the border where a series of major developments have pitted the Biden administration against a host of forces, including liberal advocacy groups, the Texas governor, and border towns.

Then we'll tackle a series of new studies that may challenge the way you view social media and polarization.

And finally, we'll discuss the dramatic drop in church attendance across the U.S.

We'll talk about all of this and more on the last debate, a show for politically collectives.

Hello, everybody. I'm Robbie Gupta.

And I'm Ricky Schott.

All right, Ricky. Let's start at the border.

We've got a ton going on here, just like I would say four or five overlapping stories.

And I think the biggest piece here is back in May, we talked about certain Biden administration

changes to the way they treated the border, the way they treated asylum cases, et cetera.

And we predicted that there would be a drop, actually, in people trying to cross the border

paradoxically, because at the time there was all of this sense that in rescinding Title 42,

and listeners can go back to that episode, we'll link to it in the show notes to get a deep dive

into what those changes meant, that in rescinded Title 42 that would

actually lead to an increase in migrants, but actually it's been the opposite.

And it's been pretty dramatic.

So as of May, when these changes were announced, there were about 7,500 migrants trying to cross

daily.

Now it's down to 3,000, which is still historically high,

but dramatically lower than it was before. But there are storm clouds on the horizon here.

The last Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that Biden changes to the asylum rules are illegal,

and particularly found that the presumption that most migrants

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